The Update with Brandon Julien

On The Update this Friday, even after 20 years, the work to rebuild the World Trade Center complex after it's destruction in the 9/11 attacks is still incomplete. Work has barely begun on two planned skyscrapers, including one that will be among the city's tallest buildings. At the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial, a former radio station intern says that the singer kept her locked in a darkened room...

On The Update this Thursday, the New York City's medical examiner's office is continuing the difficult task of identifying remains recovered from the rubble of the World Trade Center. Officials are hopeful, but acknowledge that some may never be identified. On Long Island, authorities say that a Suffolk County employee secretly installed dozens of machines in his workplace in a cryptocurrency sche...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

On The Update this Friday, many people are asking why no one foretold of the deadly ramifications of Hurricane Ida's remnants in the Northeast, but some actually did. So, how did something like this happen? We'll attempt to explain. At the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial, a woman reluctantly took the witness stand against him to recount how he struck up a relationship with her in 2006 when she was...

On the late edition of The Update this Thursday, the aftermath of Ida continues. A stunned east coast is facing a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage and continuing calls for rescue after Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain. At least 45 deaths have been linked to flooding. The remnants of Ida may be our fault. Meteorologists say natural and man-made forces made it deadl...

On The Update this Wednesday, Governor Kathy Hochul is calling the state legislature into a special session in hopes of extending an eviction moratorium and adding protections for tenants and property owners who fell behind on their rent or their mortgage because of hardships caused by the pandemic. Authorities say a New Jersey woman with the Instagram handle AntiVaxMomma sold several hundred fake...

On The Update this Tuesday, resigning from office hasn't probably ended former Governor Andrew Cuomo's legal problems, and no matter what happens next, taxpayers are likely to wind up with a hefty bill: $9.5 million to lawyers representing and investigating Cuomo and his administration over sexual harassment allegations and other matters. Out west in Buffalo, workers at three Starbucks coffee shop...

On The Update this Monday, cutting-edge DNA technology will be used to analyze the remains of more than 1,100 victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center. If you experienced a brief power surge Sunday night, you weren't alone. A fire started in a manhole on a Queens street Sunday evening, delaying service on multiple subway lines and eliciting a response from Gov. Kathy Hochul. And Id...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

On The Update this Friday, city officials are evaluating the future of the Vessel at Hudson Yards after a string of suicides, the latest coming last month after a 14-year-old boy jumped- the fourth death in 2 1/2 years. At the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial, a witness is saying that the R&B star once compared himself to rock legend Jerry Lee Louis, notorious for marrying his 13-year-old cousin dec...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Harlem is being represented in a big way. Governor Kathy Hochul has selected Harlem senator Brian Benjamin as her choice for lieutenant governor. If he accepts, Benjamin would be only the state's second black lieutenant governor. It truly was a cunning scheme: authorities have taken down a criminal racket in which corrupt lawyers and doctors used hundreds of desperate...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

On the Season 8 premiere of #TheUpdate this Wednesday,, there's a new power structure in the state of New York. Kathy Hochul is now the first female governor, and in her first few hours on the job, she sought to bring a new sense of urgency to the immense problems that went unaddressed during her predecessor's distracted final months in office. At the R. Kelly sex trafficking trial, a woman testif...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!